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THE 


Revolutionary Archives 


OF 


NEW HAMPSHIRE 


A reprint of the introduction to Volume 30 of the 
New Hampshire State Papers 


ALBERT STILLMAN BATCHELLOR, Litt. D. 

Editor of State Papers 


MANCHESTER N. H. 

Printed for The State by The John B. Clarke Co. 
1910 

























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Joint Resolution relating 1 to the preservation and publication of portions 
of the early state and provincial records and other state papers of New 
Hampshire. 

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened: 

That His Excellency the Governor be hereby authorized and empowered, 
with the advice and consent of the Council, to employ some suitable per¬ 
son—and fix his compensation, to be paid out of any money in the treas¬ 
ury not otherwise appropriated—to collect, arrange, transcribe, and super¬ 
intend the publication of such portions of the early state and provincial 
records and other state papers of New Hampshire as the Governor may 
deem proper; and that eight hundred copies of each volume of the same 
be printed by the state printer, and distributed as follows: namely, one 
copy to each city and town in the state, one copy to such of the public 
libraries in the state as the Governor ma 3 r designate, fifty copies to the 
New Hampshire Historical Society, and the remainder placed in the custody 
of the State Librarian, who is hereby authorized to exchange the same for 
similar publications by other states. 

Approved August 4, 1881. 


STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

To whom it may concern: 

This writing witnesseth that I, John McLane, Governor, in accordance 
with the provisions of the Joint Resolution relating to the preservation and 
publication of portions of the early provincial records and other state 
papers of New Hampshire, approved August 4, 1881, and by virtue of the 
authority thereof do hereby authorize Albert S. Batchellor, as Editor of 
State Papers, and on behalf of the state, to collect, arrange, transcribe, 
and superintend the publication of the original articles of agreement en¬ 
tered into and subscribed by citizens of New Hampshire in the several 
towns, by the signatures to which those who espoused the cause of inde¬ 
pendence, and those who refused to do so, are indicated and distinguished, 
these papers being known as the Association Test. The material above 
described shall all be included in a single volume, which shall be in con¬ 
struction and appearance, as nearly as may be, uniform with volume 29 of 
the State Papers series. 

There shall be included in said work such explanatory notes, citations, 
tables of contents, indexes, introductory statements, and supplemental 
papers, to be made a part of the volume, as may be deemed useful and 
appropriate. 

This I deem proper to be done, and these instructions are given in ac¬ 
cordance with the authority vested in me, as Governor, by the provisions 
of the joint resolution relating to the preservation and publication of 
portions of the state and provincial records and other state papers of 
New Hampshire, approved August 4, 1881. 

Given under my hand, in triplicate, at Concord, this 21st day of December, 
1900. 

JOHN McLANE, 

Governor. 




CONTENTS 


Page 

Introduction .......... vii 

Association Test/.1-168 

New Hampshire Men on the Massachusetts Revolutionary 

Rolls.169-198 

New Hampshire Pension Roll, 1835 199-390 

New Hampshire Pension Roll, 1840 391-434 

Major John Brown’s Detachment, Green Mountain Boys . 435-447 

Men of Colonel Bedel’s Regiment Surrendered at The Cedars, 

1776 . 448-452 

Miscellaneous Rolls and Documents . . ■ . . 453-539 

Index.548 









CORRECTIONS 


On page 173 the item “Lieutenant-Colonel” should be omitted, and the 
totals corrected accordingly. 

On page 177 the name of Aaron Cleveland of Canterbury, Lieutenant- 
Colonel, should be omitted, as he was probably of Canterbury, Conn. 

On page 424 the name Sarah Bow r en should be Sarah Bowers. 



INTRODUCTION 


The original documents which constitute the basis of treatises on 
the relations of New Hampshire to the American Revolution have 
never been systematically and comprehensively assembled. It is not 
possible to set hounds to such a collection. It necessarily extends hack 
into a comparatively remote antiquity, and collaterally into the archives 
of other states, of the Federal government, and of other nations, and 
into the accumulations of manuscripts and records in a large and con¬ 
stantly increasing number of private, municipal, and educational libra¬ 
ries. Much has been accomplished in recent years in the organization, 
cataloguing, and description of these collections. This state has pub¬ 
lished extensive installments of its archives and related documents, in 
which the facts that should be sought for a narrative of the part per¬ 
formed by its people in this important epoch are made apparent. 

In this connection an outline of what has been published is not 
inappropriate. 

The journals of the five Revolutionary conventions, in the con¬ 
temporary records described as “Congresses,” appear in volume 7 of 
the State Papers series. Early in 1776 the fifth Provincial Congress 
reported and adopted a state, constitution, the first promulgated by 
any American colony in the Revolutionary period, and on that as a 
basis caused a government to be organized and established. 8 N. H. 
State Papers, 2 ; Journal of the Continental Congress, 1775, p. 319. It 
was the expectation that this government would be temporary. Such 
was the result, although an attempt to adopt a more permanent form 
of constitution in 1778 was a conspicuous failure. Manual of the Con¬ 
stitution of New Hampshire, p. 71. The constitution of 1776 served 
its purpose until that of 1784 was adopted and put into operation. In 
this important period were preserved the journals of the Council, which 
corresponded to the present Senate, the House of Representatives, and 
the Committee of Safety, which exercised extensive legislative and exec- 

vii 


Vlll 


INTRODUCTION 


utive powers when the legislature was not in session. The journals 
of the Council and the House of Representatives from 1774 to 1784 
appear in the printed volume in the form of abstracts which show a 
diminishing degree of fulness in transcription to the end of the period 
named. 

It is due to the department which had in charge this work to state 
that this system of abstracts in place of a complete presentation of the 
records, according to the original purpose of the editor, was the result 
of the compulsory application of false ideas of economy in the prose¬ 
cution of this work. It is estimated that six volumes of ordinary size 
would have presented the journals in full, and would have thus ren¬ 
dered all that is now/ buried in manuscript volumes imperfectly indexed 
conveniently accessible for general investigation. This estimate in¬ 
cludes, of course, the journal of the Committee of Safety as an essential 
feature. This record has been printed in volume 7 of the Collections 
of the Hew Hampshire Historical Society, but it is believed that eventu¬ 
ally it will find place in the State Papers series, which will continue 
the publication in full of the journals from 1754 to 1784, heretofore 
printed in abstract only. 

The controversy over the right of jurisdiction, which involved Ver¬ 
mont as the principal, and Hew Hampshire and Hew York as interested 
parties, was to Hew Hampshire a constant source of danger and distrac¬ 
tion from the duty of performing a full part in the contest with Great 
Britain. A part of the population in the counties bordering on the 
Connecticut river held aloof from the Hew Hampshire Revolutionary 
government, and refused to recognize it as lawful, from the time of the 
adoption of the constitution of 1776 to the determination of the con¬ 
troversy by the intervention of Washington in January, 1782. 10 H. 
H. State Papers, 462. At times the movement was towards an inde¬ 
pendent state, which was to include territory on both sides of the river. 
At other times it tended towards a union of a part of Vermont with 
Hew Hampshire, or the annexation of a considerable part of this state 
to Vermont. The issue was a troublesome one in Congress, where 
Vermont was at a considerable disadvantage in having no representa¬ 
tion. This condition of affairs was the occasion for the celebrated 
Haldimand correspondence, from which it is a reasonable inference that 
certain popular leaders in Vermont had by astute diplomacy made it 


INTRODUCTION 


IX 


appear to Governor Haldimand that it might not be for the future 
interests of Great Britain for him to allow destructive British warfare 
in the territory of Vermont. 2 Coll. Vt. Hist. Soc. The documents 
relating to the conflicting claims of jurisdiction over the region formerly 
known as the New' Hampshire Grants are somewhat voluminous, and 
constitute part of the English and Canadian archives, as v'ell as those 
of New York, Massachusetts, New r Hampshire, and Vermont. The first 
New Hampshire collection of the documents relating to this subject 
which could be regarded as comprehensive was edited by Dr. Bouton, 
and published in volume 10 of this series. In volume 26 the charters 
of townships and grants of lands to individuals by Governor Benning 
Wentworth, west of the Connecticut river, were printed in full, with 
appropriate notes. Four hundred copies were purchased and distributed 
by the state of Vermont. The late Hon. Hiram A. Huse, State Libra¬ 
rian of Vermont, cooperated with the editor of the volume in the 
preparation of the material. The controversies which had their origin 
in the events outlined in the editors preface to volume 26 culminated 
in the period of the American Revolution, and projected upon that 
struggle a perplexing and dangerous complication. Its historical im¬ 
portance has been made more apparent by the modern presentation o * 
the documents relating to it in a systematic and accessible form. State 
publications, however, have failed to reach what might constitute a 
very extensive supplement to the printed archives relating to the Ver¬ 
mont controversy. 

The state of New Hampshire, in volumes 14, 15, 16, and 17 of the 
State Papers series, presented the rolls of the soldiers of the Revolu¬ 
tion in a fonn w’hich was governed as nearly as possible by the rule 
of exact reproduction. It was wisely decided that the peculiarities of 
the original record should not be disregarded. The collection, arrange¬ 
ment and editorial labor required for the publication of these docu¬ 
ments was committed to the late Hon. Isaac W. Hammond, Editor of 
State Papers and Deputy Secretary of State. What he accomplished 
in this undertaking has met in a most satisfactory degree the exacting 
tests of time and use. Moreover, it will be observed that Mr. Ham¬ 
mond’s collection w r as very nearly exhaustive of the available docu¬ 
mentary material. In 1791 a committee of the legislature, of which 
Jeremiah Smith was chairman, presented a report on the organizations 


X 


INTRODUCTION 


that were engaged in the military service for New Hampshire in the 
period of the war for independence. 9 N. H. Hist. Soc. Coll., 415. A 
file of original New Hampshire Revolutionary rolls exists in the pension 
department at Washington, in an excellent state of preservation, except 
that two volumes are missing. No systematic investigation has yet 
been made to discover the personnel of New Hampshire service in the 
Continental Army. A notable deficiency exists in the absence of rolls 
of the thirty-one companies that were sent from New Hampshire in 
1775 for the reinforcement of Washington’s army at the siege of Bos¬ 
ton on the occasion of the inopportune withdrawal of the Connecticut 
contingent. A list of the officers of these companies has been preserved, 
and this indicates approximately the places from which they were 
drawn. A few rolls, mainly of Continental service, have come to light 
since the publication of Mr. Hammond’s volumes, and are included in 
this collection. 

It has been said that at the time of the Royalton raid of 1780 
there were more New Hampshire men under arms than at any other 
period of the war. The rolls of companies, and almost all the other 
evidence of service of the organizations responding to this alarm, have 
disappeared. New Hampshire men were engaged in Gen. Jacob Bailey’s 
Vermont brigade in 1777, and they were in the Massachusetts service 
in great numbers. Many of the latter are unquestionably identified. 
Research actuated and stimulated in recent years by various patriotic 
hereditary societies has doubtless added largely to the sum of exact 
knowledge of the men of the Revolution as members of family groups. 
The material that will be finally available for the history of New Hamp¬ 
shire in that period, a work yet to be written, is constantly, though 
slowly, coming into view, and is given appropriate place in the pub¬ 
lished archives of the state. Stevens’s Facsimiles of Manuscripts in 
European Archives Relating to America, 1773-1783, are an invaluable 
contribution to the documentary literature which is becoming accessible 
in this country. It is to be regretted that New r Hampshire historians 
of the time of the Revolution failed to appreciate the importance of 
their own view of the events of that great conflict, and of satisfactory 
character sketches of the principal actors. Dr. Belknap, whose history 
of New Hampshire will always rightly hold the highest place in litera¬ 
ture of its class, condenses his narrative of events leading to actual 


INTRODUCTION 


XI 


hostilites into two chapters, thirty-two pages, while his story of the 
conflict itself occupies a single chapter of twenty pages. The next 
contribution to the documentary history of this period will necessitate 
a comprehensive examination of the archives of England, France, Ger¬ 
many, and the Canadian provinces. It is not to be expected that such 
an enterprise will ever be prosecuted by private effort and expenditure. 
In its importance, its character, and its scope it is manifestly govern¬ 
mental. 

It is a fact too significant to be overlooked that in the Revolutionary 
movement in New Hampshire the espousal of a common cause was an 
individual affair, and the citizen, in his own person, constantly appears 
in the records as the declarant of his sentiments and intentions; and 
those who exercised the functions of leadership were thus enabled 
to stand upon a foundation of unmistakable support and cooperation 
on the part of the people. It did not appear to be admissible, from 
either the standpoint of the leaders or that of their followers, that there 
should be any possibility of misunderstanding as to the attitude, not 
only of the state and the town, but of each citizen in his individual 
capacity. Hence, if retaliation on the mother country was contemplated 
by refusal to purchase her exportations to America, the assent of the 
men of every town and parish was obtained over their individual signa¬ 
tures. New Hampshire’s Five Provincial Congresses, by Joseph B. 
Walker, pp. 9, 10; The New Hampshire Covenant of 1774, by Joseph 
B. Walker. The actual identification of the people of the state as 
individuals and as a body politic was a subject of vital interest, and pre¬ 
saged consequences which could not be foreseen or predicted. Again 
the men upon whom devolved the solemn duty of making effectual their 
declared political purposes were asked to announce their attitude, to 
espouse the cause of independence by subscribing to an instrument 
called the Association Test. One of these documents was provided for 
each town, and every male inhabitant of lawful age, except lunatics, 
idiots, and negroes, was given an opportunity to join in the compact. 
It was ordered that those who refused to sign were to be reported to 
the Assembly by name. A remarkable approach to unanimity marked 
the signing of this pledge throughout the state. The business of pro¬ 
curing signatures, and of reporting the names of those who refused 
to sign, was committed to the selectmen of each town. Either these 


Xll 


INTRODUCTION 


papers were not circulated in all the towns, or, what is more probable, 
many of them were not duly forwarded to the Assembly and were after¬ 
wards lost, as not all the towns are represented in the returns now pre¬ 
served in the archives. The total number of signers aggregates 8,567, 
and 781 refused to sign for various reasons. These papers are of ex¬ 
traordinary importance and value from every point of view. They are 
reprinted in this volume with scrupulous accuracy and completeness, 
and are carefully indexed. 

The archives of this state relating to the period of the Revolution, 
as in other states, are susceptible of two divisions, though they are not 
absolutely separable and distinct. One of these divisions would include 
legislative proceedings, petitions, complaints, and explanations sub¬ 
mitted to the General Court, court proceedings and files relating to 
that part of the population now described as Royalists. A few of these 
documents necessarily appear in the general publications relating to 
the Revolution. The great mass of this class of records has been disre¬ 
garded, and they have thus become a particular section of the archives. 
Only one side is fully and fairly presented in print. The papers in the 
state’s custody which relate exclusively to the Royalists are a counter¬ 
part of what appears in liberal measure in the publications of this de¬ 
partment, and which may be regarded as anti-Tory literature. No 
index to the Royalist documents has been provided. The records 
are, of course, largely personal and have never been comprehensively 
treated for publication. The Revolutionary archives of the state and of 
the courts contain the data for an exposition of the charges against 
those who were apprehended and prosecuted as Tories, the statements 
of individual offenses, and the answers and explanations of the parties. 

The British government provided for the relief of those Royalists who 
had suffered loss of property or other injury supposed to be worthy 
of compensation. A commission was empowered to investigate the gen¬ 
eral subject, and to ascertain and report as to those deserving of relief. 
Persons represented to be members of this class, and entitled to the 
benefits of parliamentary legislation, were permitted to file their claims 
and proofs in form and method somewhat similar to that now in use 
in the Bureau of Pensions of the United States. 

Two of the commissioners, Col. Thomas Dundas and Mr. Jeremy 
Pemberton, were sent to America to conduct hearings and to receive 


INTRODUCTION 


xiii 

and consider evidence. These commissioners sat in Halifax, St. John, 
Quebec, and Montreal, and their work extended over a period of four 
years, from 1785 to 1789. Their original rough notes, in thirty-five vol¬ 
umes, are now in the Library of Congress, and have been published in the 
report of the Ontario Bureau of Archives for 1904. Copies of all the 
completed records, reports, and documents of the entire commission, in¬ 
cluding both English and American hearings, were obtained some years 
ago by the New York Public Library, and are now accessible in that 
institution. These copies fill more than sixty folio volumes. 

The New Hampshire State Library has secured from the English 
archives copies of all these papers that relate to the claimants from Mew 
Hampshire and Vermont. The documents that are now assembled in 
the archives and library of this state relating to those citizens who were 
suspected or accused of Royalist tendencies will afford sufficient material 
for a printed volume of the average size of those already published in 
the State Papers series. An impartial judgment of history may be ren¬ 
dered, although the evidence of one side is not presented, but this is a 
hazardous method of determining justice. 

Otis G. Hammond, M. A., of the State Library, recently read a mono¬ 
graph on the Royalists of New Hampshire before the Social Science 
Club of Dartmouth College. This paper was exhaustive in research, 
and in all respects an admirable presentation of the subject. It is still 
unpublished, but will prove a singularly helpful and instructive treat¬ 
ment of an element in the early history of the state that has been too 
long neglected. 

The Revolutionary rolls of Massachusetts have been treated on a 
different plan from that employed in New Hampshire. An alphabetical 
system was adopted, by which each soldier is given a separate paragraph, 
and all the essential items relating to his service follow his name. This 
results in an extensive biographical dictionary, and renders all the 
data concerning an individual immediately available, although the geo¬ 
graphical clues afforded by the names as grouped in the original rolls 
are lost. This publication occupies seventeen quarto volumes. New 
Hampshire men in large numbers served in Massachusetts organizations, 
and many of them are identified by residence. A list has been com¬ 
piled, and included in this volume, which contains the names of those 
who appear on the Massachusetts rolls as residents of the state of New 



XIV 


INTRODUCTION 


Hampshire beyond the possibility of reasonable doubt. There is 
no question that other men of New Hampshire were engaged in 
the Massachusetts service, whose identity as such is not made ap¬ 
parent by a statement of residence, or who are, on the rolls, assigned 
to Massachusetts towns. In other instances the record is ambiguous 
by reason of the existence of towns of the same name in both states. 
The list in this volume is not extended to include such problematical 
cases. In default of a clear statement of residence in a New Hampshire 
town, the identification of New Hampshire men must be left to local 
historians, genealogists, and other special investigators. 

The United States published in 1835, in three volumes, a list of all 
pensioners who were then, or had previously been on the rolls of that 
department, and in 1841 another list of pensioners then living. A copy 
of these rolls, so far as they relate to New Hampshire, is included in 
this volume. These tables not only serve as a useful supplement to, 
and verification of the original rolls, especially on points of location and 
identification of men for whom service is claimed, but they indicate 
the extent to which those who participated in the war for independence 
continued to be an element in the population of the state. The volumes 
in which these pension rolls were originally published by the govern¬ 
ment have become very scarce, and, when found, their usefulness is 
greatly impaired by the lack of indexes. 

In the early years of the war operations proceeding in two directions 
made it incumbent upon this state to raise a large number of troops, 
one part going to participate in the invasion of Canada, and another 
part to join General Washington’s army, engaged in the siege of Bos¬ 
ton. There were, also, other, but less important calls to which the 
state responded. The regiment commanded by Colonel Bedel in 1775 
was a part of the army then operating in Canada. The next year the 
second regiment of which Colonel Bedel had command also became a 
part of the Continental Army in Canada. The surrender at The Cedars 
May 21, 1776, where a contingent was in command of Major Isaac But¬ 
terfield, in the absence of Colonel Bedel and Lieutenant-Colonel Waite, 
involved only a part of the regiment. The list of men included in the 
surrender, and named as members of various companies in this regiment, 
is taken from Force’s American Archives, Fifth Series, volume 1, 
p. 167. This short list indicates that a large part of the regiment was 


INTRODUCTION 


XV 


engaged elsewhere at the time of the surrender. Rolls of the regiment 
as enlisted and organized are printed in 14 N. H. State Papers, 285 et 
seq. A comparison of the surrender rolls with the enlistment rolls, 
to indicate those presumably engaged in other duty, affords a basis upon 
which another feature of the history of the regiment may be traced. 
Affair of the Cedars, and the Services of Col. Timothy Bedel in the 
War of the Revolution, by Edgar Aldrich, 3 Proc. N. H. Hist. Soc., 194. 

The discovery of the rolls of a battalion commanded by Major John 
Brown, and recruited largely from this regiment, was recently made by 
Hon. Ezra S. Stearns, formerly Secretary of State. These documents 
are in the archives of New York, and prove an additional contribution 
by this state to the service of 1776. They are printed in full in this 
volume for the first time. 

The archives of the province and state of New Hampshire in the past 
three hundred years have been subjected to many vicissitudes. In the 
earlier part of the province period they were transported from place to 
place with the recurring changes of political jurisdiction; they were 
scattered and mutilated; the residence of the custodian was burned; 
the capital was migratory before its final establishment at Concord. At 
the time of the reconstruction of the capitol in 1864 the archives were 
deposited for months in the unprotected galleries of the old building. 
Ancient documents, bearing rare autographs, were at the mercy of preda¬ 
tory collectors and other vandals. It is possible that a partial explana¬ 
tion is here found for the occasional appearance of records and papers 
in private possession, which originally had place in the official custody 
of the state. By the labors of a lifetime the late Peter Force assembled 
a great collection of historical manuscripts, many of which were pub¬ 
lished in his American Archives. His accumulations were finally pur¬ 
chased by the Federal government. Many documents of his collection, 
published and unpublished, might advantageously be included hereafter 
in the volumes to be issued by this department. The value of these 
papers may be indicated by the one published herewith. 

The remainder of the text of this volume is occupied by two groups 
of Continental Army rolls of New Hampshire men which have not 
hitherto been printed, as they have come to light since the publication 
of Mr. Hammond's four Revolutionary volumes. One group is the prop¬ 
erty of the New Hampshire Historical Society, and the other of the 
Frye brothers of Wilton, N. H. 


XVI 


INTRODUCTION 


The exhaustive index which has been prepared by Mr. Otis G. Ham¬ 
mond reveals the name of every person and place mentioned in the text 
of the book, and will render a very large amount of information relating 
to the political and military history of the province and state easily 
accessible. It is due to Mr. Hammond, the Assistant Editor of State 
Papers, to state that he is entitled to credit for the collection, arrange¬ 
ment, and presentation of this material in its present form in this 
volume, in accordance with plans in which he and the editor have en¬ 
tirely concurred. 

It is deemed advisable at this point to call special attention to the 
state publications which are designed to serve as indexes and guides to 
the extensive manuscript collections of the state. Without attempting 
to describe in detail what these archives are, it may be stated that the 
records of the Governor and Council from 1631 to 1784, as an executive 
department, are preserved and arranged in eight manuscript volumes, and 
have been printed as far as 1775 in this series. These Council records 
are, however, fragmentary and incomplete at intervals, which may be 
consistent with the theory that they are but the rough notes of the 
recording officer, and that the extended records were removed from the 
country, or lost by accident or official neglect. It has also been sug¬ 
gested that these notes never were elaborated into a full record. The 
index to these journals published by the state in 1896 is a very helpful 
compilation. 

The journals of the House of Representatives, sometimes termed the 
Assembly, are extant, with an occasional hiatus, from 1711, and a rec¬ 
ord for the year 1699 is also preserved. This material, from 1711 to 
1784, is the subject of another index published by the state in two 
volumes. This journal, with the index, is a valuable supplement to the 
information accessible in the printed journals, as the complete presenta¬ 
tion of these records in the State Papers series ends with 17.54, after 
which Dr. Bouton adopted a system of abstracts. 

No index to the journals of the Council and Assembly, as a legislative 
body corresponding to the Senate as established under the present con¬ 
stitution, has ever been compiled. These records are not complete, but 
are approximately so from 1692 to 1784. If indexed in a systematic 
and exhaustive manner, with special reference to an exposition of all 
the subjects of legislation, whether adopted, rejected, or laid aside, and 


INTRODUCTION 


XVII 


with a critical analysis of the discussion of the affairs of government 
constantly recurring in the messages of the Governors and the replies 
of the assembly, much historical material would he uncovered. 

An index to the laws of the province and state from 1679 to 1883 
has been compiled on the basis of the manuscript volumes. It is a rea¬ 
sonable prediction that all the statutes will eventually be reproduced in 
printed form, with adequate notes and indexes. 

The student may also find help in Fry’s New Hampshire as a Royal 
Province, chapter 7, and Historical and Biographical Notes on the Mil¬ 
itary Annals of New Hampshire, by A. S. Batchellor, pamphlet, 1898, 
reprinted from History of the Seventeenth Regiment, N. H. Yols. 

It is a fact of common knowledge that the English archives are rich 
in records of colonial government relating to all the American possessions 
of the Crown prior to 1775. These documents include a vast amount 
of material which relates especially to New Hampshire. Copies have 
been made for this state of a part of these documents in the custody 
of the home government, affording sufficient material for two volumes 
of the ordinary size of this series. It is estimated that those not already 
transcribed would fill three more volumes. These papers in the English 
archives relating to New Hampshire were the subject of a descriptive 
calendar made under the auspices of the state and the New Hampshire 
Historical Society in cooperation, and published in volume 23 of this 
series and in volume 10 of the Collections of the society in 1893. The 
work of compilation was done under the supervision of the late B. F. 
Stevens of London, the distinguished archivist and antiquarian. The 
most extensive body of transcripts of documents in the English 
archives relating to the American colonies is owned by the Historical 
Society of Pennsylvania, and is now accessible in the library of that 
institution at Philadelphia. The series of Calendars of State Papers, 
America and West Indies series, published by the English government, 
now numbering thirteen volumes, and extending to the beginning of 
the eighteenth century, is necessarily rich in material relating to New 
Hampshire. These books are to be found in the State Library, and their 
use is facilitated by the descriptive calendar before mentioned as con¬ 
stituting volume 23 of the publications of this office. 

ALBERT STILLMAN BATCHELLOR, 

Editor. 



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